For my current Drupal 7 project I set up the account creation process the following way:

1. User can register for an account.
2. User will receive an email telling him that the account needs to approved by the administrator
3. Email is being sent to the administrator asking him to approve the account.
4. Once the administrator has approved the account another email is sent to the user with a link, leading the user back to the portal to set his new password and to log in.

What I am after is a slight change to this process:

I want the user to get the email first to set his password and therefore confirm his email address.

Once that is done I want the email being sent to the administrator to approve the account.

Is that possible?

Thanks, Uwe